| Preterm birth is defined as birth before 37 weeks of completed gestation. Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn death, and the second leading cause of infant death. (1) Babies surviving premature birth classically face a lifetime of health challenges, including breathing problems, cerebral palsy, motor and intellectual disabilities and others. (2) Prevention of preterm births of 58,000 babies per year is thought possible just by lowering preterm birth rates of 39 countries across the world by 2015.(3) Five proven interventions to prevent premature birth are sited. These five interventions include:
**** 1, 3, 4. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121115210617.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medicine%2Fpregnancy_and_childbirth+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Health+%26+Medicine+News+--+Pregnancy+and+Childbirth%29 Journal Reference: Hannah H Chang, Jim Larson, Hannah Blencowe, Catherine Y Spong, Christopher P Howson, Sarah Cairns-Smith, Eve M Lackritz, Shoo K Lee, Elizabeth Mason, Andrew C Serazin, Salimah Walani, Joe Leigh Simpson, Joy E Lawn. Preventing preterm births: analysis of trends and potential reductions with interventions in 39 countries with very high human development index. The Lancet, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61856-X 2. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120502184853.htm |  Five alternative cost effective interventions to prevent premature birth and eliminate ethnic health disparities in outcome of pregnancy and maternal and newborn health:  The newborn pictured is an exception, and not by accident. He was born to a teenage mother, age 18, and high risk by all standards. Yet he was born weighing over 9 pounds and healthy. Today he is 8 years old and academically gifted. He is an exception because across the United States of America, the general rate of preterm birth has decreased for Caucasian Americans, yet in the state of California, the rate of preterm births has increased for African Americans. African American babies are born too early and too sickly to live on their own without assistance of technology provided by neonatal intensive care units (nicu). Eat to meet the nutritional demands of pregnancy from the inside out  Nutrition supplements for all pregnant mothers  Allow pregnancy to advance spontaneously to full term  Provide comprehensive perinatal education based in nutrition for all pregnant mothers.  Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and street drugs. |
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 Look at this picture to your left. It's a picture of a pregnant mama from the inside out. Maybe you're wondering why I'm showing you this picture. Hold on. We're getting there.  While mama's uterus gets bigger - showing as a big belly on the outside - mama's preborn baby is busy growing and developing on the inside. Here's what's happening in general with preborn baby.  Before 3D and 4D ultrasounds, details of preborn baby's growth and development were hidden, invisible; on the inside. We have technology available to give us a view of preborn baby from the inside out.  Two placenta: maternal side up on left; fetal side up on right. The placenta is the tree of life for a preborn baby.  You get the general idea.
<<----While all this is going on -- on the outside -- so much more is going on inside. The goal is to relate to pregnancy, preborn baby, the placenta, and yes, even your uterus -- from the inside out.
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